Why Have You Disabled Experience Points?

[Hussar]

I dunno. Positive reinforcement is a good thing. If I make a post and six people step up and give me a pat on the head and say, "Wow, that's a smart thing to say", hopefully that will get me to say more things in a similar vein.

Not letting the same people continuously pat you on the head stops much of the mutual self manipulation that goes on when people keep making the same point over and over again.

 

[Morrus]

Well, I was talking about the reputation system itself, not getting a positive rep point, if you were confused.

I wasn't confused; I was making a joke. Unsuccessfully, it seems!

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I'm very amused that Morrus' current XP status shows that he is a Troll.

I like the XP system, and I'm happy that people can disable it if they want. I know it annoys some people.

One thing that's funny about the total post-count figures is that if you remember a few years ago a whole bunch of Hivemind threads got deleted and it hit some frequent posters in there very hard in terms of postcount. I think I lost about 4000 posts myself.

It makes me wonder what Crothian's postcount would be if he still had all those posts...

 

[Jdvn1]

One thing that's funny about the total post-count figures is that if you remember a few years ago a whole bunch of Hivemind threads got deleted and it hit some frequent posters in there very hard in terms of postcount. I think I lost about 4000 posts myself.

I believe threads and posts were lost from just about every forum and subforum--the boards had to be reverted to a date some months prior, and everyone was affected. The Hivemind was just affected most, due to the activity at the time.

 

[Nagol]

I'm very amused that Morrus' current XP status shows that he is a Troll.

I like the XP system, and I'm happy that people can disable it if they want. I know it annoys some people.

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Unfortunately, we can't disable it. All we can do is disable the public view of earned xp.

I'd be very happy if I could disable it completely in relation to myself (i.e. no ability to grant or receive xp with all that implies).

 

[Piratecat]

One thing that's funny about the total post-count figures is that if you remember a few years ago a whole bunch of Hivemind threads got deleted and it hit some frequent posters in there very hard in terms of postcount. I think I lost about 4000 posts myself.

By "a few years ago" you mean about seven years ago"!

 

[Asmor]

By "a few years ago" you mean about seven years ago"!

Wow, has it really been that long since the last time the boards had to be rolled back? Or was that not the last time they were rolled back?

Definitely doesn't feel like it's been 7 years...

 

[Piratecat]

Posts currently date back to Jan 2002. I thought the rollback happened in 2003. I could be mistaken, though.

 

[Jdvn1]

Posts currently date back to Jan 2002. I thought the rollback happened in 2003. I could be mistaken, though.

I think the rollback happened after I got here (seeing as how I'm pretty certain I was affected)... so, 2005 is more likely.

 

[Asmor]

Posts currently date back to Jan 2002. I thought the rollback happened in 2003. I could be mistaken, though.

Well, the 2002 figure I thought was when it was switched over from Eric Noah's site to ENWorld...